The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism
The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, indeed, many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. This is the first scholarly work to analyze the successes and failures of the varied efforts to address the environmental consequences of suburban growth from 1945 to 1970
History
xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521800594, 9780521804905, 0521800595, 0521804906
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Levitt's progress: the rise of the suburban-industrial complex
From the solar house to the all-electric home: the postwar debates over heating and cooling
Septic-tank suburbia: the problem of waste disposal at the metropolitan fringe
Open space: the first protests against the bulldozed landscape
Where not to build: the campaigns to protect wetlands, hillsides, and floodplains
Water, soil, and wildlife: the federal critiques of tract-house development
Toward a land ethic: the quiet revolution in land-use regulation